Caroline Girvan

Caroline Girvan is another amazing YouTube trainer. Previously, I only listed her workouts on my YouTube Streaming page and her workouts will continue to appear there. But I decided that because she has so many excellent workouts, she deserves a trainer page devoted to her workouts only, just like my other favorite trainers. One of the reasons I do this is because it makes it easier for me to categorize her workouts so that I can find what I am looking for quickly and easily–and I have plans to do a lot more of her workouts, so I need to be able to keep better track of them.

Caroline Girvan is a personal trainer in Northern Ireland. Due to the lock downs during the pandemic in 2020, she created a YouTube channel and started uploading workouts. And they are amazing. Her channel exploded and she currently has 1.8 million subscribers. She has created hundreds of workouts and many programs/series. In fact, she shared at the end of one of her series (Fuel Series, the intro to Workout 30), that she has created 80 weeks of programs. She has created a page that lists all of her programs along with summaries of each program.

In her Q&A video, she shares that she is not a fitness model or a competitor. Just a personal trainer. Which is (again) amazing. Her physique is phenomenal. She also says that the workouts she posts online are the same types of workouts she does to achieve her awesome physique. She does not count calories or macros, she does not take any supplements or drink protein shakes. She is just genetically gifted. Her workouts are advanced and have a high production value. They are set to music with no talking. There are all kinds of visuals to get you through the workouts–timers counting down intervals and recoveries, a bar at the bottom of the screen counting down your workout time, little beeps and words appear on the screen to cue you. Plus, Caroline is challenging herself in every workout, just like she expects you to challenge yourself. She hits muscle failure and has to take personal breaks to thaw her muscle out so she can keep going. And she is almost always lifting heavy weights. Much heavier than I am capable of lifting! And I love that. It motivates me to keep challenging myself to lift heavier. To learn more about Caroline, watch her 30 minute Q&A. Since I created this page she has created 2 more Q&As. August 2021 30 minute Q&A, and July 2022 36 minute Q&A.

In addition to many stand alone workouts of various lengths, Caroline has created some absolutely amazing programs. If you go to Caroline’s Website, you can download high quality guides for each of the programs (for free) as well as playlists if you want to follow the program day by day (the playlists are all also available on her YouTube Channel). As mentioned above, she has created a page that lists all of her programs along with summaries of each program. Caroline’s workouts range anywhere from under 10 minutes to over an hour. Most of her workouts do not contain a warm up, but she has you covered there, too. She has created several warm ups from 5-10 minutes long and I link to them below. She usually includes a stretch but sometimes, after how brutal her workouts are, her stretch seems rather paltry, so you might need to add on some additional stretching.

You do not need a lot of equipment for Caroline’s workouts. She uses a variety of dumbbells, a booty band, a fitness mat and a yoga block. She also uses furniture around her house. Instead of the furniture she uses, I use my workout bench and/or my step.

***I wanted to update this page a little. I started doing Caroline’s workouts early 2021 and although she is not the only trainer whose workouts I have been doing, I attribute my strength gains this year (2021) primarily to her workouts. To give you an illustration of it, visit the reviews for It’s Row Time! and Loaded Glute, Hamstring & Back, two of the first Caroline Girvan workouts I did after discovering her. In the break down for those reviews, you can see the weights I lifted the first time I did the workouts (March 2021) and the weights I used when I returned to the workout (November & December 2021). You will note how much stronger 8 months of Caroline’s workouts made me.***

On my YouTube Streaming page I add new workout reviews under the trainers in the order I do them, so there is no real organization to the workouts on that page. You can always go to my Workout Types page and search for her workouts there, but unless you are familiar with the way she titles her workouts, you won’t actually know which workouts are Caroline’s. Below I am organizing all of Caroline’s workouts that I have reviewed by focus, length and program. Unlike on the streaming page, I will not note whether a warm up is included–that is because she never includes a warm up. In fact, if I happen to come across a workout that does include a warm up, I will note that. I will note if there is no stretch. Some of the workouts fit into more than one category so you will see some workouts listed more than once. The hyperlinked list below will take you directly to any specific section you want to visit. I have not reviewed any of her warm ups so under that section, I link directly to each warm up on YouTube.

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